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[in a cabin in the mountains, Jim wakes up and bangs his head on the table he was sleeping under]
Alex Rieger: Jim, are you alright?
"Reverend" Jim Ignatowski: Yeah...uh ... who are you?
Alex Rieger: I'm Alex. We're friends, we work together.
"Reverend" Jim Ignatowski: What? are we, lumberjacks?
Alex Rieger: No, we're cabdrivers.
"Reverend" Jim Ignatowski: I bet we don't do much business up here!

Friday, December 28, 2012

I never weigh myself with clothes on. (don't try to imagine it, no, really) This year though, I'm shaving first, clipping my nails, and making sure that I'm not holding my toothbrush. And if these numbers don't come down, I may get a haircut as well. I may need to postpone summer for a few months to get down to swimsuit weight this time around.

Monday, December 24, 2012

I hired John Kerry this year to sit at top post and greet all the holiday visitors while I'm off doing Christmas.

But Lumberjack, he says, I look dreadful from too much of the peppermint schnaps. Yeah john, you do. Now smile at the people and say "Merry Christmas"

From the comments - an observation suggesting that John Kerry and Alice Cooper are the same person. Horsefeathers! They look nothing alike. But I must admit to having made a mistake. The above photo actually is Alice Cooper. My bad. The following is John Kerry; I'm pretty sure:

Thursday, December 20, 2012

I can't believe some photogs are still going for shots like this. Haven't we had enough of this sort of thing?

On plan B, I'm OK with it. I'm even OK with a complete cave on taxes, so long as we say, "OK, now you campaigned on a balanced plan. We must have budget cuts and entitlement reform as well. And a promise of reform and cuts down the road isn't good enough."

I'm ok with a cave on taxes because we don't have the Senate or the Executive branch, they do. And anyway, this is not about taxes. We're talking about a 4% hike in one tax bracket. Sure, any hike is detrimental but it isn't as bad as ignoring spending will be. And the Senate and Obama flatly refuse to compromise on tax hikes.

Obamacare is going to throttle the economy. We, as individuals, will have to work harder just to keep our heads above water. I'm convinced that is going to happen. And I'm not OK with conservative fiscal policy being blamed for it. The fiscal cliff fall is all they'll need to pin the blame on Republicans.

Will we get blamed anyway? Sure, and the public doesn't do math, so it may not help to have facts on our side. But allowing them to blame a fiscal cliff fall on us is a guaranteed loser.

Because the Mayans said so? (or, more correctly, might have said so) No, the world won't end until everyone has tried this. And, sure, I've done it, but I know you haven't, right? What do you mean "may have" ? What, you too? You're freaking me out man. Knock it off.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Reprehensible. You knew that gun control advocates were going to use the Sandy Hook School massacre for their own purposes even before all of the poor children were buried. That's just how classy they are.

But the President goes lower still. Obama thinks it's appropriate to use this tragedy to argue for higher taxes. Disgusting.